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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #264 - Creative Process, Part 1

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Game Design, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Mtg, Leisure, Magic The Gathering, Ccg, Games, Mark Rosewater

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mark begins with part one-of-two podcasts about the creative process.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

0:05.5

Okay. So today, I'm going to talk about a topic that a lot of people ask me about, which is the creative process.

0:13.0

So today is all about, I call this the blank page. How do you create something from nothing?

0:21.1

So one of the things I've learned is that I get excited by the blank page.

0:28.8

I get excited by the idea of there's a world of possibilities, what do I want to do?

0:33.5

But what I've learned is most people are scared to death of the blank page.

0:38.2

The idea of having nothing to work off, of having no structure of anything that possible is paralyzing.

0:45.7

And so I want to talk a little bit today, like, what's the technique I use?

0:48.7

How do I start with truly a blank page and end up with something?

0:52.6

I'm going to teach you my secrets today and talk through the creative process.

0:56.6

Sounds like a fun drive to work.

0:58.2

Let's get started.

0:59.7

Okay, so here's the first secret.

1:02.6

You have to start with something.

1:07.0

When I am faced with a blank page, I always say, okay, let's come up with something that intrigues me and interests me.

1:12.9

Now, one of the things is very interesting is you want to make sure that whatever you choose to do, that you, the creative person, are interested in it.

1:20.0

If you pick something you're just inherently not interested in, remember, that creation is an emotional thing.

1:26.5

That when people create things, you are tapping

1:29.3

inside yourself and you're sort of going to your soul, if you will, to your heart, to your

1:34.3

soul, whatever you want to call it. You have to pick something that you have some fondness for

1:39.9

that you believe in. It is very, very hard to be creative in an area that you're just not at all

1:45.3

interested in. And so, first thing you need to do is find something. So essentially what you want

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